Top 45 Colin Kaepernick Quotes

I was not going to let people tell me what I’m capable of.

I don’t think I can be too hard on myself.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, ‘Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?’ Not what their appearance is.

As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.

Once you’re on the field, you’re playing. You’re not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.

I don’t play for job security.

I have great respect for people’s right to believe what they want to believe. And I don’t think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.

There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I think I can be faster. I think I can be quicker.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy – amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. So I think there are great opportunities for a lot of athletes out there.

A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it’s a tragic situation where players aren’t comfortable speaking what’s on their mind or what’s right because they’re afraid of consequences that come along with it. That’s not an ideal environment for anybody.

In the heat of the battle, it’s always different than when you go back and look at it on film.

I’m not your typical quarterback. I don’t like when people say, ‘Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to run,’ or, ‘Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to work out a certain way.’

My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that’s something that’s carried over throughout my life. It’s how I deal with certain situations.

I think I’m very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

I’d say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I’m checking it down.

Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.

All my life, I’ve had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody‘s rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.

I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn’t want to know.

I don’t believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it’s a lot of rap music.

I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature.

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

People can talk all they want; that doesn’t affect how I go about my business.

I don’t want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, ‘If we need a play to be made, let’s go to him.’

Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.

I’ll never take the easy way out.

When it comes down to it, you’re playing football regardless of what offense you’re in.

All my tattoos, they’ve been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I’ve got them. So I’m not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It’s something that means something to me. It’s something that I believe in.

If you’re going to do something, you’re going to do it to be the best.

I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

The support I’ve gotten from my teammates has been great.

I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it.

What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn’t something I worry about.

When I’m actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That’s the way-to-the-game kind of music.

I don’t look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.

I haven‘t seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.

We have a presidential candidate who‘s deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn’t make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you’d be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers.

Unless you’re being carted off, you should be on the field.

People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

You have full-field view when you’re watching the film. Eye in the sky, it’s a lot easier to look at it that way than when you’re back behind center.